Be warned. Thousands of tarantulas will be making their way across Colorado very soon. No, it’s not the plot from the 1990 film “Arachnophobia,” but a perfectly normal, and very real (albeit creepy to ...

DENVER, Colo. (KDVR) — Calling all spider lovers: It’s almost time for thousands of male tarantulas to crawl across 433,000 acres in southeast Colorado for their mating season. If you aren’t creeped ...

It’s that time of the year again, when part of Colorado turns into an arachnophobe’s worst nightmare as 1,000s of tarantulas emerge to find a mate in the southern part of the state. Each year, between ...

COLORADO SPRINGS – Colorado wildlife officials say thousands of tarantulas are expected to start their annual migration through the state soon. The Gazette reported Wednesday that the migration is ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — Soon, tarantulas will crawl ...

Every September, the small town of La Junta, Colorado puts on a whole festival to celebrate a beloved local animal: the tarantula! Around this time of year, thousands of mature male tarantulas start ...

LA JUNTA, Colo. — Finding a mate is risky business this time of the year for the Colorado brown tarantulas that populate southeastern Colorado. In the late summer, thousands of male tarantulas scour ...

It's almost tarantula mating season. That means residents of the arid Southwest and West could be seeing the large furry spiders making their way across the desert in search for a mate. Across the ...

Arizona is home to over a dozen tarantula species. These primarily nocturnal creatures are most active during the late summer and early fall mating season. Although venomous, Arizona tarantulas are ...

May through July is peak tarantula season in Austin. In the early summer months, the large hairy spiders emerge from their underground burrows and crawl around Texas in search of mates. Austin-area ...